For me, it’s when multiple separate characters who haven’t met each other ever or in a while, just coincidentally happen to talk about the same topic that is relevant to the plot.
I’m reading dark age by pierce brown right now and literally every character is talking about a character named volsung fa. It makes sense for one of the POV’s to talk about that because it’s relevant to that character’s plot. But there are other characters that haven’t contacted that other pov in months and they are talking about the same topic. Why? Because it’s relevant to the other character’s plot that they don’t know about. Like I get that the author is trying to build something up but it’s done in such a sloppy way that it’s irritating
Anyone else have minor things that irritate them?
by Feisty-Treacle3451
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Perhaps sometimes when you see the perspective of multiple characters in their own first person in different chapters. I think it can slow the story down, but it can also be beneficial. It doesn’t happen that often in the books I read anyway.
In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Final Architecture series he quite frequently writes that something is “above their paygrade.” It is in all three books in the series numerous times and it completely, probably to an irrational degree, did my head in while reading those books.